PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Cutting out the fat
Remove a number of consecutive letters from inside a word for a fat-reducing activity, leaving a similar but shorter fat-reducing activity.
The letters you removed can be rearranged to form a fattening food.
What are these two activities and one food?
Pro-Am Appetizer:
Niblicks, mashies and “Spooners?”
Name what a professional athlete in a particular sport ideally does, in two words.
Switching the beginning sounds (that is, “spoonerizing” them) will sound like two things a non-professional athlete perhaps does to stay in shape.
What are these four words?
Reels And Wheels Slice:
Cheesy movies
Feta, Cheddar and Edam are three kinds of cheeses, but each also shares something with three title characters:
one from a movie, and two others from a pair of plays that were eventually made into movies.
Who are these three title characters?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
“Antony” and Syndy...” opposites that attract
Will Shortz’s August 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a two-letter and a five-letter word that are synonyms. The two-letter word and the last syllable of the five-letter word sound like new words that are antonyms. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Place a five-letter and an eight-letter word that are synonyms next to each other without a space. Remove the last three letters of the five-letter word. Remove the Roman numeral that stands for eleven from the eight-letter word, leaving a space in its place. The result is something that smarts, in three and five letters. What synonyms are these? What smarts?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a synonym of “generous” and “compassionate” and place an antonym of this synonym in front of it. This antonym and synonym contain the same number of letters. Spoonerize these two words to form what sounds like a two-word term for what it might take to solve this puzzle. What are this antonym, synonym and two-word term?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a four-letter and a five-letter word that are antonyms but also homophones. What words are these?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a European-language word for a missus, followed by and English slang term for a missus. This result contains two of the same letter.
Remove the first of these duplicate letters. The result is a synonym of “miserly.”
What is this synonym?
John Hancock Mellencamp (?) Signature Song Dessert:
Who was born in a small town?
Name a signature song title by an artist who appeals to small-town America.
Rearrange the letters of the song title to form a synonym of “small town” and a homophone of a synonym of “small town.”
What is this song title?
Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Cutting out the fat
Remove a number of consecutive letters from inside a word for a fat-reducing activity, leaving a similar but shorter fat-reducing activity. The letters you removed can be rearranged to form a fattening food.
What are these two activities and one food?
Appetizer Menu
Pro-Am Appetizer:
Niblicks, mashies and “Spooners?”
Name what a professional athlete in a particular sport ideally does, in two words. Switching the beginning sounds (that is, “spoonerizing” them) will sound like two things a non-professional athlete perhaps does to stay in shape.
What are these four words?
MENU
Reels And Wheels Slice:
Cheesy movies
Feta, Cheddar and Edam are three kinds of cheeses, but each also shares something with three title characters:
one from a movie, and two others from a pair of plays that were eventually made into movies. Who are these three title characters?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
“Antony” and Syndy...” opposites that attract
Will Shortz’s August 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a two-letter and a five-letter word that are synonyms. The two-letter word and the last syllable of the five-letter word sound like new words that are antonyms. What words are these?Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Place a five-letter and an eight-letter word that are synonyms next to each other without a space. Remove the last three letters of the five-letter word. Remove the Roman numeral that stands for eleven from the eight-letter word, leaving a space in its place. The result is something that smarts, in three and five letters. What synonyms are these? What smarts?
ENTREE #2:Think of a synonym of “generous” and “compassionate” and place an antonym of this synonym in front of it. This antonym and synonym contain the same number of letters. Spoonerize these two words to form what sounds like a two-word term for what it might take to solve this puzzle. What are this antonym, synonym and two-word term?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a four-letter and a five-letter word that are antonyms but also homophones. What words are these?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a European-language word for a missus, followed by and English slang term for a missus. This result contains two of the same letter.
Remove the first of these duplicate letters. The result is a synonym of “miserly.”
What is this synonym?
Dessert Menu
John Hancock Mellencamp (?) Signature Song Dessert:
Who was born in a small town?
Name a signature song title by an artist who appeals to small-town America.
Rearrange the letters of the song title to form a synonym of “small town” and a homophone of a synonym of “small town.”
What is this song title?
Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
Glad you're back in business, lego.
ReplyDeleteNo anagrams found for NZIIRG.
I just hate to ask, but to what puzzle does "NZIIRG" correspond?
DeleteIt's an anagram of the last six letters of "Spoonerizing" but any further meaning escapes me.
DeleteAt this point, I think it's safe to say that NZIIRG is derived from MARRIT, which pairs well with VILLAGE.
DeleteBottom line: It's my own damn fault.
DeleteNice to have a shorter set of problems to work through this week! I hope you are feeling okay, Lego.
ReplyDeleteHave managed to solve all the Entrees and Dessert. I have what I know is NOT a correct answer for the Pro-Am Slice, but a clearly alternate one....mainly because I had missed the instruction that we were to come up with TWO alternate non-professional stay-in-shape activities, rather than a two-word phrase.
Am thus far totally stuck on Schpuzzle and Cheesy Slice.
I am feeling better, ViolinTeddy and Paul. Thanks. Only 8 puzzles this week. All Puzzlerian!s (including me) need a bit of a break!
DeleteThat being said, I still must ask cranberry to re-email me his Cryptic Crossword Puzzle. Somehow it got lost in the cyber-ether.
I look forward to seeing your alternative Pro-Am Slice answer, VT.
As for Paul's "No anagrams found for NZIIRG" comment, at first I thought it alluded to last week's ENTREE #8, the puzzle he and Word Woman solved when I posted it on Blaine's blog (before Puzzleria! even existed). But now I am not so sure about that.
LegoWhoNotesThatPaulMayEnlightenUs...OrKeepUsGuessing!
HI, dear Lego. We all hope you are not still feeling LOW.
ReplyDeletexxxooo D.E.
Thank you, Dowager Empress. I am feeling much better.
DeleteLegoObservesThatDowagerEmpressObviouslySolvedWillShortz'sNPRPuzzle...AndWondersIfSheMightHaveReceived"TheCall"
Hello all, especially Lego-
ReplyDeleteGlad you were able to post the puzzles this week :)
So far, have the Cheese Slice and all the Entrées. For the Pro-Am Appetizer, I found a highly nsfw answer relating to a member of a football special team, relating to a 4th down far from the goal. Of course, in an ideal case, said special team member would not have to do this at all, as the offensive team would have made the 1st down...
While searching for a worst-case situation wrt Lego, I stumbled on an interesting article the Puzzlerian!s may like.
Lego, your site is, so far as I can see, unique in that it gives a weekly assortment of multiple adult-level (as opposed to 5th-12th grade-level) puzzles. This is a valuable service, not only for those of us who need to be diverted from medical or similar issues. Be thanked! geofan
I had stumbled on that article myself, some months ago, geo, and was amused to see my own ID name mentioned in it!! Natch, Lego didn't toot his own horn too all of us, about having been given that media attention....
DeleteSubtract an 'o' from 'too', of course
DeleteHappy Friday to all(especially you Lego, and I hope you're feeling better)!
ReplyDeleteHad an interesting evening. Saw my niece Maddy sing at an outdoor concert, and then we all went to eat at Cracker Barrel. Before the concert I solved the Private Eye Crossword, and just now I solved Paul's latest Prize Crossword. Late last night I checked Puzzleria!, and could only solve a few Entrees(#2 and #3). BTW Lego, we've been cleaning up around here, so I may have to send you a different cryptic crossword. I may have trouble finding the same puzzle I had originally sent. Check your email soon!
Thanks, cranberry. I'll be awaiting your Cryptic Crossword with bated breath.
DeleteLegoFireCrackerJackBarrelJumper
BTW forgot to mention hints, but by now you should know some of us need them to figure out these puzzles. I'll be awaiting those with bated breath.
DeleteEarly Monday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
The two fat-reducing activities are almost always done to the accompaniment of music. Both activities (of course) begin with the same letter, which is a Scrabble letter with a value that is an even number.
The fattening food is almost never even just by itself.
Pro-Am Appetizer:
The particular professional athlete perfoms in a sport that involves balls and strikes... (but it is not the first sport that came to your mind when you read that hint just now.)
RAWS:
The "Feta movie" is by far the most well known, followed by the "Cheddar movie," then the "Edam movie."
This puzzle is more digestible if you first slice the rind from the outside of each cheese.
ROSS:
ENTREE #1:
The synonyms are both gerunds.
The something that smarts might also swell.
ENTREE #2:
The synonym and antonym are four-letter words.
The synonym is also a synonym of type. The antonym is also a synonym of average.
ENTREE #3:
Theis four-letter and a five-letter word that are homophones of each other are also homophones of things associated with SPF.
ENTREE #4:
The European language is German.
DESSERT:
The title character of the signature song is a giver of advice who dies in his sleep.
LegoAJigSawWhileSwiggingGinAndBitters
The fattening food is almost never even or never EATEN by itself?
ReplyDeleteBTW I may not have Entree #3 as I said earlier. I have solved #4 and the Dessert, though. Can't figure out the "Edam movie", but I get the idea of the puzzle.
The "Edam movie" is admittedly obscure.
DeleteThe fattening food is not one like ice cream, a slice of pie or cake, pizza or a frosty glass of root beer or bock beer -- all that can be enjoyed by themselves. Nor is it one (like Oreo cookies, a salted nut roll, a Twinkie, or a bag of potato chips, almonds or pistachios) that you munch on after plopping down on your sofa to binge-watch "Game of Thrones."
Both activities begin with the same letter, which is a Scrabble letter with a value that is a number greater than 2.
LegoWhoNotesThatCheesesLikeEdamCheddarAndFetaAreAlsoQuiteFattening!
I misread the SOTW hint to read "an even number less than 3", i.e., 2. From the music hint, I fixated on "dancing", then "DIRTYDANCING. Drop YDANC to get DIRTING and rearrange to get CANDY which is fattening. Only problems: DIRTING is not an activity, and candy is eaten by itself...
DeleteAs to say in Russian motherland, back to board of drawing...
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ReplyDeleteHad correctly solved (pre-hints) the Pro-Am Appetizer and Entrées 1,2,4. Had no clue on the Dessert - will try later with the hint.
ReplyDeleteALTERNATE ANSWERS for 3 Puzzles
For the Reels & Wheels slice, pre-hint, I had read the puzzle to seek cheeses as a group and the movies and plays as a group, with no one-to-one correspondence between cheeses and plays/films.
Using this model, other cheeses that might qualify would be (for a strict reading) JARLSBERG, and (for a less strict reading) HANDKÄSE (a German soft cheese from Hessen, Germany) and KRAFT VELVEETA (if you consider Velveeta a cheese). The plays that follow this model are MAME and HAMLET. Two movies that conform to my model are BEAN(1997, strict reading) and ALEXANDER(2004, less strict reading). There may be others, but I abandoned the search to use the "correct" model from the hint.
Using the one-to-one correspondence, I get the "Feta" movie but not yet the others - still working.
For the Schpuzzle, I also have an alternate answer. The activity is a sport that has field goals, but it is not the first sport that one thinks of when thinking of them. The "short" form is a slang abbreviation for the same sport. The meaty food has fat, but also more protein.
For Entrée #3, I have an alternate answer with 4 letters = "a missing part" and 5 letters = "everything" as the words
geofan,
DeleteI look forward to learning more about your alternate Schpuzzle answer on Wednesday, as well as more insight from you on your strategy/approach of grouping the cheeses and movies/plays in Reels & Wheels.
LegoWhoIsACheeseheadWhoPrefersJarlsbergAndHandkaseToCheddarOrSwiss
Lego-
DeleteThe model for my alternate solution takes all the cheeses as a group and asks:
"What property is shared by all the cheeses? Find it and than find 2 plays and one movie that each share that property (plus the criteria set forth in the puzzle)."
That property is that (strict reading) each cheese contains 1 A and 1 E in its name, or (broad reading) contains only the vowels A and E (possibly repeated) in its name. Furthermore, the 2 plays and 1 movie must fulfil the criteria you originally set forth (2 plays made into movies, 1 movie with no play antecedent, each has as its title the name of the main character). The proposed alternate conforms to that model and your criteria. MAME and HAMLET were first plays, then movies. BEAN and ALEXANDER were originally movies - no play.
BTW, in your hints, you do not mention plays. Do the original criteria (see preceding after "Furthermore") still apply?
Ah, thanks for the elucidation on your "Cheesy Movies" thought process, geofan.
DeleteI neglected to use the word "play" in my "wordplayful" hinting simply because I am lazy. To clarify, the "Feta movie," as far as I know, was not adopted from a play. The "Cheddar movie" and "Edam movie" definitely started out as play, then were adapted later for the silver screen.
LegoWhoIsACheddarheadLivingIn"TheLandOfNoddingOff"EastOfEdamWhoProffersPuzzlesInHopesThatThoseWhoSolveThemWillSimplyAcceptThemAsAFetaCompli!
I can't help but chuckle, that in your long discussion above, geo, you provided your own HINT to the Dessert (which I gather from post below, you have now solved.)
DeleteAgree.
DeleteOK, with the Monday hints I now have all the "correct" answers.
ReplyDeletePlus reasonable alternates for the SOTW, Reels&Wheels Slice, and Entrée #3 as discussed above.
I've gotten nowhere on yon Schpuzzle, sigh, espite whatever hints there have been, and have obviously taken a completely different approach to the Cheese puzzle (I do have three answers, none of which I believe are the intended, but then I rather ignored the 'been a play' aspect.)
ReplyDeleteI did, however, come up with the intended answer to the Pro-Am thanks to the hint, but I will submit my original solution, too.
Hint for the SOTW:
DeleteBoth activities are dances, but (per the Scrabble clues) they do not begin with D. Also neither ends with -ing.
One is associated with the 1930s-1940s and the other with Ireland.
Nice Schpuzzle hints, geofan. They are appreciated.
DeleteLegoWhoAddsThatTheDancesMightBeDescribedAs"Lively"
Thank you, geo....I had actually guessed the fattening food already, but never would have come up with the dances....but now have the solution, thanks to your last sentence above....
ReplyDeleteYes, thank you geofan. I got it right from your hints, too!
ReplyDeleteLego, are you checking your email inbox anymore? I've sent you two cryptic crosswords, but got no reply yet! What's the problem?
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteSorry, but nothing is showing up in my email. Be sure to address your puzzles to jrywriter@aol.com
Thank you.
LegoHasAFeverAndTheOnlyPrescriptionIsMoreCrypicCrosswords!
I'm sure that's exactly what I did. Oh well, I guess I'll try one more time.
DeletePatrick,
DeleteI am mystified.
Try emailing me at:
jry51joroyo@gmail.com
Sorry about this.
Thanks for being patient.
LegoWhoIsNotExactlyTheEmailWizard
Perhaps your aol email server, Lego, is rejecting PJB's email IF it has an attachment that is the crossword itself?
Deletepjb - Possibly the attachment is too large for AOL email. Is the cryptic x-word > 10 MByte in size? Lego - is is possible for you to check the maximum size of an attachment in AOL?
DeleteI have had no problem sending emails to Lego's AOL email (with no attachments).
Note: if an email is rejected, usually the ISP sends a notice of rejection to the sender.
Also Lego, check your spam folder.
DeleteThanks, VT and geofan, for the ideas.
DeletePatrick always sends me his cryptic crosswords with no attachments. This is about his 11th one, I think. We have never had any problems in the past. His emails only include text, and there is not that much of it. I create the grid on my end.
I checked my aol spam folder for the crossword. It is not there.
If Patrick sent the crossword to my gmail account, it is not there either.
Mystery!
Thanks for the ideas.
LegoHopingHeCanRunAPatrickJBerryCrypticCrosswordThisFriday!
I sent it in both ways. Lego, I hope you get it somehow.
DeletePatrick, I just sent you an email from my gmail account. If you get it, put the cryptic crossword in your reply.
DeleteThanks!
LegoWhoHopesThatHeAndPatrickWillNotNeedToResortToSnailMail
I still haven't got your email, Lego. I don't know what's gone wrong here. I hope eventually it will work itself out. Until then, let's go back to concentrating on this week's puzzles. I've got the Schpuzzle and the Dessert, and half the Entrees(#2 and #4). How about a few more hints?
DeleteHave you been getting emails from anyone else, and/or sending out to others who DO receive them? Could there be a problem with pjb's server, rather than with aol?
DeleteI wrote the above confusingly...I had meant to ask pjb if HE has gotten/sent out successful emails to other people, during this time that his mails to Lego haven't gotten through (and now apparently, Lego's aren't received by pjb either.)???
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ReplyDeleteEarly Wednesday Hints:
ReplyDeletePro-Am Appetizer:
If the particular professional athlete does this ideal thing just a dozen times in a match, then she or he is "batting" 300!
(It's a sport where "striking out" is a good thing.)
RAWS:
As I said in the previous hint, trim the rind from the outside of each cheese, but just the rind, Leave the interior (letters) intact.
If you run low on the feta, use you home phone to phone Homemade Cheese house. They deliver... via bicycle!
ROSS:
ENTREE #1:
The synonyms are somewhat existential philosophical concepts... the "I think, therefore I am" kind of stuff.
Peter Sellers stared in a film whose title's first word was the 5-letter word.
The 8-letter word anagrams to "exit sign."
The four-letter word contains the Latin equivalent of an alpha and omega (in the beginning and end sense), just like "crazy" and "bazooka" do. The five-letter word is also the first word in the title of a novella by J.D. Salinger.
LegoWhoWondersIfKeglersCelebrateTheirVictoriesWithKeggers
cranberry and Lego,
DeleteIn the preceding post from Lego, please insert a new paragraph and "ENTREE #3" after "exit sign" and before "The four-letter word...". The last 3 lines in Lego's original post relate to Entrée #3 only.
As to the email mystery, it is virtually certain that the problem is on pjb's end.
Suggest to check your (pjb's) Out mailbox to see if any email was ever sent. It is possible that the emails to Lego remain in the "Drafts" folder and were never sent at all.
Thanks for correcting my August 14, 2019 at 12:02 AM hints, geofan. You are exactly correct, and stated it well:
Delete"The last 3 lines in (my latest hinting) post relate to Entrée #3 only."
Thanks also for your continued efforts to retrieve Patrick's Cryptic Crossword. We'll figure it out eventually.
LegoSaysTheBiggestPuzzleOnThisWeek'sBlogIsTheWhereaboutsOfPatrick'sCrypticCrossword
JITTERBUGGING - BUTTER = JIGGING
ReplyDeleteBOWLS STRIKES > STROLLS, BIKES
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982); Hedda Gabler (1962); Da (1988)
BEING+EXISTING > BEE STING
MEAN KIND > KEEN MIND
RAZE, RAISE, RAYS
FRAU, GAL > FRUGAL
THE GAMBLER > HAMLET, BERG (BURG)
Same answers as Paul, with following alternates:
ReplyDeleteSOTW: JITTERBUG = BUTTER + JIG (same as Paul but without -ing)
Alternate: BASKETBALL = B-BALL + STEAK
Cheese Slice: after 1st hint, same as Paul.
Alternate: MAME, HAMLET (plays+films); BEAN(1997 film), ALEXANDER (2004 film). Each one has one A and one E in its name (strict reading) or at least one A and one E (broad reading).
Entrée #3: post-1st-hint, same as Paul.
Alternate: HOLE, WHOLE
geofan
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteJITTERBUG, JIG, BUTTER
Appetizer
BOWLS STRIKES, STROLLS, BIKES
Menu
E.T.(1982), HEDDA GABLER(1962), DA(1988)
Entrees
1. BEING, EXISTING, BEE STING
2. MEAN, KIND, KEEN MIND
3. RAISE, RAZE
4. FRAU, GAL, FRUGAL
Dessert
"THE GAMBLER" by Kenny Rogers; HAMLET, BERG(BURG)
I hope our little email snafu gets fixed soon.-pjb
SCHPUZZLE: JITTERBUG & JIG; BUTTER (I had actually guessed the latter as the fattening element)
ReplyDeletePRO-AM APPETIZER: My original answer: GROW MASS (as in 'muscle') => MOW GRASS; Intended answer: BOWL STRIKES => STROLL and BIKES
CHEESY SLICE: EDAM is from HOLLAND, so MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS?; FETA is from GREECE, so ZORBA THE GREEK?; CHEDDAR is from ENGLAND, so THE ENGLISH PATIENT?
ENTREES:
1. BEING EXISTING => BEE STING
2. MEAN & KIND => KEEN MIND
3. RAZE and RAISE; Geo's alternate answer: HOLE & WHOLE
4. FRAU & GAL => FRUGAL
DESSERT: THE GAMBLER/Kenny Rogers => HAMLET & BERG
VT,
DeleteYour GROW MASS/MOW GRASS alternative (even though MOW GRASS is not "two things") is very nice.
And so is geofan's HOLE/WHOLE alternative to my RAZE/RAISE.
cranberry,
I too hope hope our little email fubar gets fixed soon!
LegoFouledUpBeyondAllRecognition
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DeleteBut am wondering what you thought of my very wrong Cheesy Slice answer? I realize that the 'syntax' really isn't correct, in the the use of "Greek" and "English" should mean that the Edam answer would be a movie with 'Dutch" rather than "Holland."
DeleteHallelujah!
ReplyDeleteI just received cranberry's Cryptic Crossword Puzzle in my AOL emailbox.
I should have it ready for this Friday's Puzzleria!
LegoSays"SitutationIsBackToNormal...AllFiredUp!
Hallelujah indeed! You don't know how many times I've reprinted it trying to send it again! I'm practically sick and tired of fooling with it now! But don't let that stop you from using it, Lego!
DeleteHow did the problem with the emails get solved?
DeleteOn my end, the email arrived with date stamp of about 6PM CDT.
DeleteThe email nexus 'tween cranberry and lego just miraculously came unclogged.
LegoNotesThatNoTechGeeksWereHarmedInTheMakingOfThisHappen!
This week's answers for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Cutting out the fat
Remove a number of consecutive letters from inside a word for a fat-reducing activity, leaving a similar but shorter fat-reducing activity. The letters you removed can be rearranged to form a fattening food. What are these two activities and one food?
Answer:
Jitterbug, Jig; Butter (tterbu --> butter)
Appetizer Menu
Pro-Am Appetizer:
Niblicks, mashies and “Spooners?”
Name what a particular professional athlete ideally does in two words. Switching the beginning sounds (“spoonerizing”) will sound like two things an amateur non-professional athlete perhaps does to stay in shape. What are these four words?
Answer:
Bowls strikes; Strolls, Bikes
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Reels And Wheels Slice
Cheesy movies
Feta, Cheddar and Edam and are three kinds of cheeses, but each also shares something with three title characters:
one from a movie, and two others from a pair of plays that were made into movies. What are these three title characters?
Answer:
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," "Hedda Gabler," "Da"
(If you remove the first and final letters of each cheese the result is "E.T.," "Hedda" and "Da.")
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz Slices:
“Antony” and Syndy...” opposites that attract
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Place a five-letter and an eight-letter word that are synonyms next to each other without a space. Remove the last three letters of the five-letter word. Remove the Roman numeral for eleven from the eight-letter word, leaving a space in its place. The result is something that smarts, in three and five letters. What synonyms are these? What smarts?
Answer:
Being, Existing; Bee sting
ENTREE #2:
Think of a synonym of “generous” and “compassionate” and place an antonym of this synonym in front of it. This antonym and synonym contain he same number of letters. Spoonerize these two words to form what sounds like a two-word term for what it might take to solve this puzzle. What are this antonym, synonym and two-word term?
Answer:
Mean, Kind; Keen mind
ENTREE #3:
Think of a four-letter and a five-letter word that are antonyms but also homophones. What words are these?
Answer:
Raze, raise
ENTREE #4:
Think of a European-language word for a missus, followed by and English slang term for a missus. This result contains two of the same letter. Remove the first of these duplicate letters to form a synonym of “miserly.” What is this synonym?
Answer:
Frugal; Frau + gal - a = Frugal
Dessert Menu
John Henry Mellencamp (?) Signature Song Dessert:
Who was born in a small town?
Name a signature song title by an artist who appeals to small-town America. Rearrange the letters of the song title to form a synonym of “small town” and a homophone of a synonym of “small town.” What is this song title?
Answer:
"The Gambler," by Kenny Rogers (hamlet, burg)
Lego!